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#Question id: 24166


The term spices is a pleasant one, whether it connotes fine French cuisine or a down-home, cinnamon-flavored apple pie. ____________. In the past, individuals traveled the world seeking exotic spices for profit and, in searching, have changed the course of history. Indeed, to gain control of lands harboring new spices, nations have actually gone to war.

#General Aptitude
  1. The taste and aroma of spices are the main elements that make food such a source of fascination and pleasure.
  2. The term might equally bring to mind Indian curry made thousands of miles away and those delicious barbecued ribs sold on the corner.
  3. It is exciting to find a good cookbook and experiment with spices from other lands—indeed, it is one way to travel around the globe!
  4. The history of spices, however, is another matter altogether, and at times, it can be filled with danger and intrigue.
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#Question id: 4730

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Cross is made between a pure breeding plant having red coloured male flowers with a pure breeding plant having white colored female flowers. All of these offspring are white colored flower. Upon selfing of these F1 red flower plant produced both red and white flower. Which of the following is conclusion of these cross?

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#Question id: 4731

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

A pure-breeding strain of squash that produced disk-shaped fruits was crossed with a pure breeding strain having long fruits. The F1 had disk fruits, but the F2 showed a new phenotype, sphere, and was composed of the following proportions

Disk  384            

Sphere 96

 Long  32

What is reason for F2 phenotype?

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#Question id: 4732

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

What is F2 phenotype ratio observed when a homozygous recessive mutation in either or both of two different genes results in the same mutant phenotype?

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#Question id: 4733

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

If a homozygous plant with red peppers is crossed with a homozygous plant with green peppers, all the F1 plants have red peppers. When the F1 are crossed with one another, the F2 are in a ratio of 9 red : 3 brown : 3 yellow : 1 green  due to

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#Question id: 4735

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

In corn, three dominant alleles, called A, C, and R, must be present to produce colored seeds. Genotype A/–; C/– ; R/– is colored; all others are colorless. A colored plant AaCCRr is crossed with colorless plant aaCcRr. What proportional of offspring plant with colorless seed?

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#Question id: 4737

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Two independent pure line varieties having white and green phenotype in their fruit were cross, the all f1 progeny is white fruit. The F2 progeny obtain from selfing show white, yellow and green in ratio of 12:3:1. Which of the following is correct?